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06-10-2009
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| Vista Ultimate x86-64 / Debian Squeeze AMD64 | RAID-1 with different sized disks under vista, intel matrix ICH9R Hi I have an ICH9R board and intel matrix storage. I previously had a 1TB drive with 250GB free (not partitioned). I added a second 250GB hard drive. Is it possible to create a raid1 volume (end of 1TB drive+full 250GB drive) without loosing all my data on the other 750GB of the drive? I don't see how to do it in the matrix storage console. I know it's possible to do this with software raid but vista doesn't support software raid-1. If it's not possible, can I backup my data, create a 250GB raid1 array in the BIOS, and create an other 750GB partition during vista setup for less critical files? thanks |
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06-10-2009
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| | Re: RAID-1 with different sized disks under vista, intel matrix ICH9R What purpose is this raid going to serve? I trust its not in place of a backup strategy. Usually its data partitions you would want to mirror You might, depending on why, be better off using an Imaging app to backup to your new drive "zorxd" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:1abf81becf87b22431586067b7efd43b@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > Hi > I have an ICH9R board and intel matrix storage. I previously had a 1TB > drive with 250GB free (not partitioned). I added a second 250GB hard > drive. Is it possible to create a raid1 volume (end of 1TB drive+full > 250GB drive) without loosing all my data on the other 750GB of the > drive? I don't see how to do it in the matrix storage console. > I know it's possible to do this with software raid but vista doesn't > support software raid-1. > > > If it's not possible, can I backup my data, create a 250GB raid1 array > in the BIOS, and create an other 750GB partition during vista setup for > less critical files? > > > > thanks > > > -- > zorxd |
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06-10-2009
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| Vista Ultimate x86-64 / Debian Squeeze AMD64 | Re: RAID-1 with different sized disks under vista, intel matrix ICH9R Simple : I want two volumes : one 750GB for non-critical data (games, movies, etc.) and one mirrored (raid1) 250GB volume for my documents and pictures. I have two disks : 1TB and 250GB. Is it possible to do this with either vista software raid or intel matrix storage? |
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06-10-2009
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| | Re: RAID-1 with different sized disks under vista, intel matrix ICH9R You would need to ask Intel if their chipset and driver support this functionality. I'd guess not. "zorxd" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:1abf81becf87b22431586067b7efd43b@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > Hi > I have an ICH9R board and intel matrix storage. I previously had a 1TB > drive with 250GB free (not partitioned). I added a second 250GB hard > drive. Is it possible to create a raid1 volume (end of 1TB drive+full > 250GB drive) without loosing all my data on the other 750GB of the > drive? I don't see how to do it in the matrix storage console. > I know it's possible to do this with software raid but vista doesn't > support software raid-1. > > > If it's not possible, can I backup my data, create a 250GB raid1 array > in the BIOS, and create an other 750GB partition during vista setup for > less critical files? > > > > thanks > > > -- > zorxd |
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06-10-2009
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| | Re: RAID-1 with different sized disks under vista, intel matrix ICH9R "zorxd" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:1abf81becf87b22431586067b7efd43b@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > Hi > I have an ICH9R board and intel matrix storage. I previously had a 1TB > drive with 250GB free (not partitioned). I added a second 250GB hard > drive. Is it possible to create a raid1 volume (end of 1TB drive+full > 250GB drive) without loosing all my data on the other 750GB of the > drive? I don't see how to do it in the matrix storage console. > I know it's possible to do this with software raid but vista doesn't > support software raid-1. > > > If it's not possible, can I backup my data, create a 250GB raid1 array > in the BIOS, and create an other 750GB partition during vista setup for > less critical files? > > > > thanks > > > -- > zorxd have to be the identical total capacity to be used in RAID configuration. |
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06-10-2009
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| Vista Ultimate x86-64 / Debian Squeeze AMD64 | Re: RAID-1 with different sized disks under vista, intel matrix ICH9R I know that I can use different sized disk in a raid array (at least with intel matrix storage). What I don't know is if the remaining space can be used or not. If I was in linux I would do this with mdadm in a few seconds. |
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06-11-2009
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| | Re: RAID-1 with different sized disks under vista, intel matrix ICH9R No it cannot. If you set up a mirrored array with one 250GB and one 1TB drive, you will loose all but 250GB of the TB drive. -- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "zorxd" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:6576e4dd37824284f6ab9fd71126cf4c@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > I know that I can use different sized disk in a raid array (at least > with intel matrix storage). What I don't know is if the remaining space > can be used or not. > > If I was in linux I would do this with mdadm in a few seconds. > > > -- > zorxd |
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06-11-2009
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| | Re: RAID-1 with different sized disks under vista, intel matrix ICH9R In message <6576e4dd37824284f6ab9fd71126cf4c@xxxxxx-gateway.com> zorxd <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> was claimed to have wrote: Quote: >I know that I can use different sized disk in a raid array (at least >with intel matrix storage). What I don't know is if the remaining space >can be used or not. > >If I was in linux I would do this with mdadm in a few seconds. seconds too. |
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06-11-2009
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| Vista Ultimate x86-64 / Debian Squeeze AMD64 | Re: RAID-1 with different sized disks under vista, intel matrix ICH9R  Quote: Originally Posted by Dave Warren  If you like software RAID, you can do the same in Windows in just a few seconds too. |
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06-11-2009
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| | Re: RAID-1 with different sized disks under vista, intel matrix ICH9R Simple, create a partition in the free space, use the raid set up utility to see if that disk partition can be used in the array Somehow I doubt it "zorxd" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:de570940b77ce3d995248690ea4b554c@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > Dave Warren;1063902 Wrote: Quote: >> If you like software RAID, you can do the same in Windows in just a few >> seconds too. > No, vista doesn't support RAID1 or RAID5, only RAID0. > > > -- > zorxd |
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